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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 43–60.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 modern Buddhism Hindu nationalism temple architecture visual and material cultures Hindu-Buddhist relations In nineteenth- and twentieth-century India, Buddhism became deeply embedded in an array...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 384–397.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of Zoroastrian Fire Temples . Mumbai : Jenaz Printers , 1998 . Godrej Pheroza J. Firoza Punthakey-Mistree , eds. A Zoroastrian Tapestry: Art, Religion, and Culture . Ahmadabad : Mapin Publishing , 2002 . Grigor Talinn . Building Iran: Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 166–174.
Published: 01 August 2021
... design, which was reflected in a new set of architectural plans. In place of Sikalumbi's sleek modern images, the new House of Prayer looked like a Sunday school representation of an Old Testament temple, with large external columns, wide sweeping staircases, and huge stone slabs inscribed with the Ten...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 61–81.
Published: 01 May 2023
... is at once a local feature associated with stupas in South Asia and a transnational sign of architectural articulations of political power ( fig. 2 ). Figure 1. View from entry plaza, Buddhavanam stupa, 2017. Photograph by the author. Figure 1. View from entry plaza, Buddhavanam stupa, 2017...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 495–506.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., Temple of the Tooth, and Royal Audience Hall in Kandy, and text by Anil De Silva-Vigier. To answer these questions, architecture may need to be understood both as narrowly and as broadly as De Silva seems to have understood it. Her publication of the documents and mementoes of a career spent...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 536–550.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., including archaeology, architecture, and geography. It has variously been used to refer to the physical presence or collective identity of monumental objects (such as ancient burial mounds) but more often to monuments as memorializing devices, whether designed to commemorate events and individuals...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 526–540.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Rachel Lee Abstract Drawing on experiences of researching India's architectural history, this article explores the affect generated by architectural archives as a source of knowledge. It traces the affective life of the archives and practices of a singular historical figure: Otto Koenigsberger...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 August 2022
... in his destruction of the temple of Shiva at Somnath, in Gujarat. This hymn has been read as referring to another act of iconoclasm—or rather attempted iconoclasm, since it was ultimately unsuccessful—by Maḥmūd of Ghazna. This article shows that the attempted iconoclasm in question is not Maḥmūd's...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 507–525.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Farhan Karim Abstract As political questions behind Pakistan's emergence distilled themselves into aesthetic questions of how to represent a country without a past, the debate erupted through the spatial practices determining the form and architectural character of the nation's two capitols...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 329–340.
Published: 01 December 2010
...);
heads and faces clearly suggested the Homo Alpinus
Bernshtam, “Saki Pamira” (“Pamir Sakas VDI, 55
the fortress inside the temple were thoroughly replica of the temples of Togolok-1 and Togolok-
coated by white gypsum, which indisputably 21. The architectural composition of the temple...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 3–9.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of conflicting claims and ideologies that fracture and sometimes violently disrupt the fabric of social lives. In India, this paradigm is most apparent (and best documented) at the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya, where long-standing traditions of diverse worship and interpretation have given risen to local...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 251–263.
Published: 01 May 2004
... of architecture and the Passion, focused upon nineteenth-century travelers,
arts.”22 John Pemble warns against misinterpreting the in-
Had Edwards, a mere “aficionado,” tended to ex- terest in Egyptian and Assyrian archaeology appar-
aggeration to secure resources for her...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 104–117.
Published: 01 May 2024
... in professional expertise ( thozhil ) and elaborate a relation to the sea that is recounted in terms of kinship rather than alienable property. 8 Speaking to a journalist in the Kattupalli temple, an elder named Yashoda said, “They talk about ancestral property [ paattaan coththu ], right? That is the sea...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 May 2013
... as “the clearest impression” the world had of Abadan. This article is based on a paper that was presented at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, as part of the 2010 Historians of Islamic Art and Architecture symposium. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 The Oil City in Focus...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (2): 326–341.
Published: 01 August 2008
..., “Place: An Experiential Perspective,” Geographical
doi Duke Fulbright scholarship. While in Ankara, Turkey, I was hosted by Review 65 (1975): 160.
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Middle East Technical University’s Faculty of Architecture...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 148–152.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., soundscapes, auras, and media ecologies. 14 As analytical tools these terms draw our attention to ways in which religious publicities escape the walls of the house or the temple, infuse the bazaar with color, flutter in the wind, and dance between the foreground and background in a field of vision...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 73–81.
Published: 01 August 2004
... who had commissioned a trade or craft and coquettishly offers his wares to the
grand building projects, such as Amir Khusraw’s (d. love-struck poet. One of the earliest instances of this
1325) description of the architectural projects of the kind of poetry is found in the divan of Mas’ud Sa’d Sal...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 42–52.
Published: 01 May 1994
... of Uttar Pradesh,
From the 1920s, Uttar Pradesh was a Congress
the site of significant changes that have very nearly
stronghold, the centerpiece of the Congress sys-
reconstituted the architecture of Indian...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 86–94.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to theorize the urban and rural as entangled in heterogeneous ways, empirically and imaginatively. 5 In this article, I contribute to this effort by suggesting how the concept of translocal householding provides an architecture for understanding contemporary rural-urban entanglements. Intrinsically...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 68–76.
Published: 01 May 1996
..., Amia AND THE MIDDLEGIST VOL. XYI No. I (1996)
Zndia, a book written in the Ahmednagar Fort prison religion for his conquests.” In this early (1966) book,
in the early 1940s. Ahsan’s own “journey” through Thapar still speaks of the temple raids as being par-
the contemplation made...
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